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'"Old Joe" Cannon appears to have a
few friends left in Iowa after all that baa
been said against him.
The wail of the Bryan organs for a
special session of tbe legislature breaks
oat occasionally, bnt Governor Sballen
berger ignores tbe bulldozers remain
ing silent.
Tbe present liquor law is good enough
and strong enough for tbe editor of the
Albion Argus. "No one can start a sa
loon now till tbe town says so, and this
is state wide," is tbe way tbe Argus puts
it.
All this talk, by a few democrats of
Platte county of revolting and making a
tight against the machine will end
in smoke. When the whip cracks
they will fall in line and take their medi
cine as obubI.
A copy of the Blair Pilot containing a
double-leaded, double-column editorial
calling on tbe republicans of Nebraska
to get together and nominate former
Governor Sheldon to head tbe ticket,
has been received at tbe Joarnal office.
Tbe Pilot article contains the announce
ment that tbe breweries defeated Shel
don two years ago. Tbe returns, how
ever, prove this assertion untrue. Shel
don was defeated by the prohibitionists
of Boone, Polk, York and some of tbe
other counties that have been prominent
in shouting for county option and pro
hibition There appear.- to be some Dahliuan
sentiment among the democrats of Col
umbus, but the sentiment is not strong
enough to break tbe grip tbe local ma
chine has on tbe party, in Platte county.
Platte county has tbe strongest and
most brutal organization in tbe state.
No man or set of men have ever been
able to pry loose tbe grip of tbe machine,
and any attempt to do so this year will
prove a failure The machine has de
cided that Platte county democrats shall
not support Dahliuan. Tbe friends of
tbe Omaha man may be able to sneak in
a few votes for him at the primary elec
tion, bat tbe bosses will see to it that
no organized effort is made to boost for
the man who has defied Bryan, Sballen
berger and Edgar Howard.
An Omaha paper gathered some infor
mation from the members present at the
recent meeting of the democratic Btate
central committee, and confidentially
informs the public that the delegations
to tbe state convention from Douglas,
Adams, Cuming, Gage, Hall, Otoe and
Saline counties will endorse tbe Dahl
man idea of controling the liquor traffic.
The name of Platte county does not
appear in the list, although this county
has always been regarded as territory
opposed to Bryan's county option plan.
It has been hinted that some of the lead
ers of the democratic party in Platte
county, while pretending to be hostile to
county option, are secretly favoring tbe
adoption of a county option plank in tbe
democratic platform for tbe reason that
to ignore the question would be a direct
slap at Mr. Bryan; and to declare against
county option would mean that "We, the
democrats of Nebraska, in state conven
tion assembled, most heartily endorse
tbe Personal Liberty Ideas of James
Dab 1 man, etc."
Tbe defeat of tbe LaFollette partisans
iu the Wisconsin republican state con
vention, and the endorsement of what
the insurgents designate as "Cannon
iem"in the Council Bluffs district of Iowa
by tbe renomination of Congressman
Walter I. Smith, was a surprise to the
insurgents. In tbe Wisconsin conven
tion, not a voice was heard in defense of
LaFollette, and tbe endorsement of
President Taft's administration and the
Payne tariff law was unanimous. Sena
tor Cummins and Dolliver came on from
Washington to assist in the campaign
against Smith, and his victory over the
candidate of the Oummins-Dolliver
machine was so pronounced that Mr.
Smith is considered tbe biggest man in
Iowa today, and in all probability will
be nominated for speaker of the next
house by the republican caucus. He is
a member of tbe rules committee, and
has been one of the chief supporters of
Cannon in tbe fight that has been made
against him by Norria and the other in
surgents. The black-eye the insurgent
movement has received in Iowa and
Wisconsin ought to convince them that
the republican party is not yet ready to
follow the lead of the men who are at
tempting to veneer it with tbe brass of
democracy.
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THE ERA OF RICH WOMEN. I
It is frequently urged, by the advo
cates of votes for women, that women
are taxed without representation. It
id, of course, quite impossible accurate
ly to estimate what proportion of the
nation's wealth is ultimately held and
controlled by women; but some dis
closed by a casual glance at the list of
taxpayers on personal property in the
city of New York alone.
Seven persons in New York are tax
ed on 1 million dollars' worth or more
of personal property. Three of them
are women, and a women heads the
list Mrs. Emma B. Kennedy, widow
of the late John Stewart Kennedy,
who is taxed on G millions. Mr. Ken
nedy, in his will, left his wife 15 mil
lion dollars, besides giving about 30
millions to charity. The next two
names, taxed upon 5 millions each, are
Andrew Carnegie and Mrs. Margaret
Sage, widow of the late Russell Sage.
The third woman on the list is Mrs. J
Florence Amsinck, widow of the late
Gustave Amsinck, the importing che
mist, who is taxed on 1 million dol
lars in personal" property. By her
husband's will, Mrs. Amsinck received
all his real estate in this country, in
Germany and in Italy, as well as much
other property. She is probably worth
today 20 million dollars.
Scanning the New York tax list as
far down as those assessed at $50,000
we find listed by their Christian names,
so that they are recognized as female?,
some eighty other women, paying per
sonal tax on a total of 8 millions.
Doubtless there are many others listed
only by their initials. Judging by the
usual difference between the assessed
value of a taxpayer's personal proper
ty aud the actual size of his fortune,
these figures must be multiplied a
good mauy times if we want to esti
mate the total value of the property
held by the eighty women. It must
le remembered that some of the rich
est people iu New York pay no per
sonal tax, and that others are rated on
a comparatively trifling assessment
not through perjury, by any means,
but because of the many exemptions
allowed by law. For instance J.
Pierpont Morgan is taxed on only
8400,000 worth of personal property in
New York.
For similar reasons, the list does not
include some of the largest fortunes
held by women usually classed as New
Yorkers. For example, it does not
show the uatue of Mrs. . H. Harri
man, who, by the famous 99-word will
of the late railroad magnate, inherited
all his fortune, which was estimated by
well informed people at from 50 to 75
million dollars, though some much
higher guesses were made. Nor does
it include Miss Helen Gould, nor
many other women of great wealth.
Avoiding as far as possible mere es
timates and guesswork, and drawing
the figures largely from the published
wills of the husbands, parents or rela
tives from whom they inherited, it is
possible to make up a list of American
woman comprising less than twenty
names, who control a combined wealth
of half a billion dollars. It is easy to
to speak calmly of half a billion dol
lars, because the average mind is quite
incapable of grasping the idea of it;
but it is a larger sum than has ever
been accumulated by one man, with
the possible exception of John D.
Rockefeller.
Add twenty or thirty more names,
and the total would amount up toward
three-quarters of a billion. Nor, even
so, does the catalogue claim to be com
plete. Doubtless if the full facts
could be secured, a list of two hundred
American women who control a com
bined wealth of one billion dollars
could be compiled without violence to
the truth. Walter E. Patterson in
June Munsey's.
OUR CAPITAL.
Unlike London or Paris or Berlin,
Washington is single hearteadly in the
business of being a capital. That
means that it attains to a great deal of
gaiety in its spare time, in a city where
spare time is measured out in double
handfuls. Washington is a social
center for many grades of society; so,
although the social season for gold lace
aristocrats ends soon after Lent, for
the rest of us real gaiety at the capital
begins with the first warm days of
March and progresses with the buds
and leaves. In front of Washington's
most pretentious hotel half of the con
veyances that are backed up to the
curb are taxicabs, aud the other half
are one horse hacks. The taxi is for
them; the hacks for the rest of us! The
chief duty that we ordinary folks owe
to form in the capital is that of smok-
ing a gut cigar in the office ot tbe
representative from our congressional
district. After that we stroll out to
enjoy the freedom of the city; to relish
the general cheer. Down the broad
sidewalks under the elm trees, from
late afternoon till bedtime, school
boys and clerks exult in horse play or
go marching as many as six abreast
and singing in "close harmony." In
appropriate ratio to this army of the
easy going and the care free, there are
hordes of pretty school girls and un-
employed young women. Flirting and
love making may be studied here at
great advantage. Multitudes of grin
ning negroes heighten the impression
of pleasantness and leisure. The
motor cars glide softly and at a speed
regulated by comfort; and there are
more carriages left in Washington
than in most other prominent cities.
The presence of senators and repre
sentatives, half of whose duties are
social, and of scores of scientists to
whom discoveries are of the greatest
importance, but lapse of time is of no
moment whatever, adds further to the
general impression of ease. In a dairy
lunch room in Washington we have
heard a porter and a counter man
argue for fifteen minutes over the best
way to arrange strawberries on a sau
cer. Philosophy, too, k given much
attention. In restaurants we have
heard morality, religion and govern
ment discussed over the breakfast
table calmly and at great length.
These straws show that the rest of us
enjoy the capital as much in our own
way as any one in the exclusive social
set does. As we saunter down the
avenues pondering and debating, or
ride in economical luxury in a one
horse hack, the city reminds us of a
college town in commencement time.
Colliers.
WHAT WOULD YOU DO?
What sort of attitude would the
world be in if Dr. Frederick A. Cook
were after all to produce indubitable
proof that his claim -of having discov
ered the north pole ahead of Peary
was true? It would look like lending
countenance to an impossibility to
speculate upon what possible atone
ment the world could make to the
man for his pitiful degradation, but it
is not at all impossible.
On the contrary, friends of Dr. Cook
have recently insisted that he has of
late been iu Scotland preparing for a
dash to Etah to procure the proofs
which he seems not to have brought
with him upon his return from the
Arctic regions. His best friends, and
he still has a few who cling to the hope
that he will yet vindicate himself in
the eyes of enlightened mankind, do
not pretend to know he expects to get
to Etah. Without the means so essen
tial to equipment for such a voyage
and for his susteuance while making
it, their only hope is that some trading
vessel from Denmark may give him
passage.
One can almost wish that he will be
able to prove that he was not, as sus
pected, the perpetrator of the greatest
hoax in history. Should he do so
humanity would feel relieved of serious
apprehension for its reputation. It
would feel like the community in which
it has just been discovered that the
man about to be executed is innocent.
And it would make amends commen
surate with the humiliation it has im
posed upon the doctor. But it would
first have to be doubly assured that
the proofs weie not simply another
hoax. And if there is anything of
the genuine man in Dr. Cook he well
might perish in an effort to make good
his claim rather than go through life
dodging his own name and identity.
Lincoln Star.
WORKINGMEN'S INSURANCE.
After many years of agitation France
has followed the example and model of
Germany in adopting a general scheme
of workingmen's insurance. Under
this plan there is to be created an
insurance fund made up by yearly
contributions from workinemen of
$1.80, from working women of $1.20,
and from minors of 90 ceats. Employ
ers are obliged to contribute a like
amount for each erson in their em
ploy. The fund thus raised will be
increased, by additions from the nation
al treasury. The existing old age
pension scheme will be consolidated
with the new system, which includes,
like the German system, sick benefits
and accident insurance. AH State
employes iu France already are pen
sioned (and this includes railroad em
ployes, miners aud seamen). The
new system will add about 17,000,000
working people, or practically all of
the working ieople of the country. It
is calculated that the State will have
at first to contribute about 836,000,000
a year, but it is believed that this will
be gradually reduced iu a few years to
$25,000,000. Indianapolis News.
A GOOD EXAMPLE.
Smoky and maligned though it be,
Pittsburg has set the world a good ex
ample in its means of disposing of
municipal grafters.
Five more bribe-taking councilmen
have been put behind the bars in the
Pennsylvania city. Lawyers, bankers
and physicians alike have been locked
up, regardless of their social positions.
In other words, jail is prescribed as
the universal panaccea for theft. The
rich grafter and the disreputable ward
heeler, whose price is so low as to be
almost negligible, have been herded
together and locked up at Pittsburg.
The Smoky City courts have decid-
ed that the city's moaey is quite as
sacred as private funds, and the men
who have plundered the city treasury
are being treated like ordinary thugs.
This action is directly in line with
the fearless stand Uncle Sam has lak
es in sending to jail rich bankers who
violated the federal banking laws.
When courts treat criminals of all
classes alike and enforce laws without
fear or favor, there will be less reason
for the political unrest so prevalent in
America. Nashville Tennessean.
THEPOSTOFFICE DEPARTMENT
The Postoffice Department of the
United States is the largest business
enterprise in the world, in the expen
ditures involved, the number of per
sons employed and the service ren
dered. There are many things about
it of peculiar interest. During the
nineteenth century, and up to the
present time, it has doubled its busi
ness once every ten years, except in
two of the decades. This fact in itself
is deeply significant. It necessitates
methods of management which can
expand with equal rapidity, and they,
in turn, require change as well as
growth. No other business offers such
a problem; nor is the end even in
sight so long as population increases.
There are many reasons why the
Postoffice Department is just now a
subject of serious study. It has
always been conducted at a loss. It
has long been considered that this
would gradually be reduced in amount,
until it should finally disappear. The
tacts, however, have not justified this
belief. The ten year doubling of the
business has been accompanied by ex
penditures which have somewhat more
than doubled during the same periods.
That is not in accordance with the
experience of the most successful pri
vate commercial enterprises, in which
an increase of one-tenth in the number
of employes is often sufficient to care
for a twofold increase of business. It
is probable that the next few years
luay see radical changes in postoffice
organization and management. They
are likely to include a divisional sys
tem, and a permanent superintendent,
independent of political appointment.
Youth's Companion.
DR KOCH'S GREAT WORK.
About thirty five years ago Dr.
Kock rendered invaluable service to
the world by his investigation of anth
rax or splenic fever, a disease greatly
dreaded by owners of cattle and sheep.
This discovery raised him from the
position of a country doctor to a world
famous medical authority and gave
the opportunity of studying tubercu
losis, the germ of which he isolated
nearly thirty years ago. Tuberculin,
which he invented, has not proved' as
he hoped, a specific for tuberculosis
but it has beeu a valuable aid to doc
tors in diagnosing the disease in hum
an beings and animals; but chiely
means of ascertaining if a human be
ing has the disease.
Dr. Koch declared that tuberculosis
was not communicated from animals to
mankind, and medical opinion in this
country and England has strongly
contradicted him, and it has been re
peatedly stated that he had been re
futed. And yet at the recent meeting
in Washington of the National Society
for the Study and Prevention of Tub
bercnlosis a resolution was adopted,
baaed upon exhaustive investigation in
New York, saying that only about 2
per cent of the cases of tuberculosis can
be traced to milk and these are wholly
among young children. The position
taken by these American experts was
very nearly as comprehensive as that
which Dr. Koch had taken, and which
had arrayed against him most of the
English speaking doctors. Philadel
phia Record.
ATCHISON GLOBE NOTES.
A Startling Statement.
People are always too ready to fav
or defendants in personal injury suits.
They do not stop to consider that this
unfair frieudliness results in thousands
of unjust perianal injury suits, and
that finally the people must pay the
bill. Here is a startling statement:
About a year ago Minnesota ap
pointed a committee to study the sub
ject of compensation for personal in
juries resulting from industrial acci
dents. By a search of court records
of Hennepin county, in which Minnea
polis is situated, the committee dis
covered that the sum which the people
of the county pay out yearly in court
costs accruing from the trial of per
sonal-damage cases exceeds the sum of
all the verdicts recovered by the plain
tiffs in such cases. By paying the
damages out of their own pockets,
without litigation, taxpayers could
have saved money. And rather less
than half the amount of the damages
named in the verdicts actually reaches
the injured persons "or their dependent
Contingent-fee lawyers and trial costs
absorb the remainder.
Defending Tobacco.
You may think every man who
smokes wants to quit, and can't. The
general opiaioa seeaM to be that using
tobacco is a bad habit; not very bad,
but so bad that aaeawouldn't learn it
if they were beginning over, and had
their present knowledge of the weed.
But there is always opposition, and not
all men want to quit And not want
ing to quit, it is for them to make a
defense; there are always arguments
for the defense. Here is one offered
by a correspondent to the Chicago
Tribune: "You may say that the
world did without smoke for a mighty
long time, why not now? But you
must admit that since tobacco was
introduced to the world it has wit
nessed the greatest things done by
brainpower. Tobacco did it. Why,
every conceivable invention is either
perfected now or so near it that the
inventive field is nearly used up and
inventors are leaving the field and
retiring. The brains responsible for
our present civilization are found
mostly in the tobacco era. Even the
Ladies' Home Journal advises girls
not to marry a man who does not use
the weed in a smoky form. That paper
rightly contends that the non-user is
likely to get irritated after dinner,
whereas a smoker would be quiet and
behave himself, soothed by the balm
of a fragrant Havana. To a girl in
love a smoker is more desirable be
cause he writes a better love letter,
which is more efficient than star
gazing."
The Great White Lie?
The Ballinger case will likely at
tract more attention now than ever
before: those against Ballinger an
nounce that President Taft has been
caught in a lie!
Some time ago the president wrote
a letter exuberating Ballinger. The
Muck-Raking newspapers now'declare
that this letter was written by a sub
ordinate of Ballinger's, and signed by
Taft. Taft says the original draft of
the letter was drawn by Oscar Lawler,
assistant attorney geueral for the in
terior department, at his (Taft s) re
quest. When the letter was brought
to Taft, he changed its language to
suit himself. This is the regular pro
ceeding in matters of that kind, but
the Muck-Rakers are making much
of it.
A clerk named Kerby has jumped
into the lime light with Gilford Pin
chot; he is the author of the latest
story, and is hoping to be discharged,
in order that he may become a martyr.
All the fuss that has beeu made
over Ballinger has been made by sub
ordinates looking for notoriety, and
exploited by Muck-Raking newspapers
looking for circulation. It is all ridi
culous, and all unfair, but now comes
a $15 a week clerk named Kerby who
is trying to prove the president is a
liar, in order that he may earn some
thing from the Muck-Raking news
papers. This feature of the story is pitiful:
the people really should be ashamed
of themselves for their longing to see
the president "caught in a lie."
Taft does not believe Ballinger has
done any wrong, therefore he stands
by him. This is perfectly proper. If
you were accused unjustly by a sensa
tional liar, would you not expect hon
est men to stand by you?
Chasing The Men.
Women deny chasing the men, but
it is related that Franz Liszt, the
great pianoist, was compelled to be
come a priest to escape being married
against bis will.
Liszt met Countess d'AgouIt when
he was 23. She was married, and had
three children, but their affairs lasted
ten years, during which time they
had several children. This affair was
not Liszt' fault; the countess chased
him. She was older than he, and paid
much attention. Finally, she arrang
ed that she and her mother should
meet Liszt in some distant city; she
was to go to one hotel, and Liszt to an
other. When he arrived at his hotel,
the countess had possession of his
room! She threw herself in his arms.
What could be done? One of their
daughters married Hans Von Bulow;
she and Richard Wagner fell in love,
and Yon Buelow gave her to Wagner.
It is stated that once a visitor called
to see Liszt, and found him asleep at
the piano, with twelve women around
him. The women became so madly in
love with Liszt that they didn't know
what they were doing in his presence;
once a beautiful Russian countess
pointed a pistol at him because he
scorned her love.
The Princess Caroline, of Syen-
Wittgenstein left her husband, and
went to live with Liszt She took
care of his children, and made his
home comfortable, but he did not leve
her. Her husband divorced her; but
Liszt did not marry her.
Liszt's home became a Mecca, and
his lady worshipers made pilgrimages
to see him. One woman, to whom he
was indifferent, used to moan. "If
Liszt would only love me for a single
hour, that would be joy enough for
me." Is it any wonder he had to en
ter a monastery at 68, to get rid of his
lady admirers? v
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Tha Psychological Momant.
MIs Miss Whvatou ut home?" asked
one of tlit uelgbbora of tbe spinster us
be called at bcr door to get her signa
ture to a petition.
"She b tbat." responded Col la Lea by,
three weeks over from Ireland aud a
most willing handmaiden. "Will yez
step lu. sorr?"
"I should like to see her on n matter
of business for a few moments if she
Is not engaged." said tbe neighbor.
Cella Hung wide tbe door aud waved
him In.
"If sbe bas wan. he's neglectln ber
shameful," sbe said In a hoarse, confi
dential whisper, "for 'tis three weeks
tomorrer since I come here, and he's
not put bis fut over tbe t'reshold in all
tbat tolme! Sure, 'tis your cbanst!"
Youth's Companion.
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THROUGH CENTRAL WYOMING
THE BIG HORN BASIN
is now so well started on its great wealth producing era that
it not only appeals to farmers looking for new lands upon
which to establish new homes under most favorable conditions,
but appeals to the Business man, Professional man, Mine oper
ator and Manufacturer in new towns that are springing up and
where raw material in plenty can be handled at a profit.
The business opportunities consist of locations for new
Banks, General Stores, Creameries, Blacksmith Shops, Butcher
Shops, Barber Shops, Bakeries, Harness Shops, Hotels and
Restaurants, Farm Implement Dealers, Lumber Dealers, Flour
ing Mills, Canning Factories, Furniture Factories, Lawyers,
Doctors and Dentists.
WORKMEN NEEDED: All kinds of labor is in great
demand, and the highest possible wages are paid; carpenters
get from $4.00 to $6.00 per day, farm laborers from $30.00 to
$50.00 a month; there is not an idle man in the Basin.
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